Abstract: A synchronous rectifier applied to a power converter includes a power supply module, a control module, and a gate driving unit. The power supply module is used for generating a supply current according to an induced voltage generated from a secondary side of the power converter, wherein the supply current is used for establishing a supply voltage, and the induced voltage corresponds to a control signal of a power switch of a primary side of the power converter. The control module is coupled to the power supply module for turning on or turning off the power supply module according to the supply voltage. The gate driving unit is coupled to the power supply module for generating a gate control signal controlling turning-on and turning-off of a synchronous switch of the secondary side of the power converter, wherein the supply voltage is used for driving the gate driving unit.

Abstract: A speed-changing method of bicycle suitable for controlling a gear ratio of a bicycle is provided. The bicycle has a front electronic derailleur, a rear electronic derailleur, a controller, and a controlling switch. The controller stores a gear-ratio table. The speed-changing method of bicycle includes the following steps. The controlling switch is triggered to generate a speed-increasing signal or a laborsaving signal. The controller controls the front and rear electronic derailleurs according to the speed-increasing signal or the laborsaving signal to increase the gear ratio along a speed-increasing path of the gear-ratio table or decrease the gear ratio along a laborsaving path of the gear-ratio table respectively. On the other hand, the front and rear electronic derailleurs are started simultaneously at a first switch point of the speed-increasing path or a second switch point of the laborsaving path, and the first switch point is different from the second switch point.

Abstract: In an example embodiment, a computer-implemented method is disclosed that computes, using one or more processors, a path slack value for each path of a set of paths of a functional computing model. Each path of the set of paths comprises a set of tasks and the path slack value of each path reflects a difference between a deadline and a latency of the path. The method further determines a priority of each task of the set of tasks of each path based on the path slack value of the path, and allocates, using the one or more processors and based on the priority of each task, the tasks of each of the paths of the set to corresponding computing units from a set of computing units of an architectural platform.

Abstract: A semiconductor device is provided. The semiconductor device includes a doped isolation structure formed above a substrate, and the doped isolation structure includes a first doped portion and a second doped portion, and a doped concentration of the second doped portion is different from a doped concentration of the first doped portion. The semiconductor device also includes a first fin partially embedded in the doped isolation structure, and a sidewall surface of the first fin is in direct contact with the first doped portion. The semiconductor device includes a second fin partially embedded in the doped isolation structure, and the doped isolation structure is between the first fin and the second fin, and a sidewall surface of the second fin is in direct contact with the second doped portion.

Abstract: A semiconductor device structure is provided. The semiconductor device structure includes a substrate. The semiconductor device structure includes a first fin structure and a second fin structure over the substrate. There is a gap between the first fin structure and the second fin structure. The semiconductor device structure includes an isolation structure having a thin portion and a thick portion. A first upper portion of the first fin structure and a second upper portion of the second fin structure protrude from the thin portion. The thick portion is partially between the first upper portion and the second upper portion. The semiconductor device structure includes a dummy gate electrode over the thick portion, the first upper portion, and the second upper portion. The semiconductor device structure includes a gate electrode over the first fin structure and the thin portion.

Abstract: The disclosure includes implementations for providing a personalized medical emergency autopilot system based on data from a portable medical device. A method may include receiving, by a communication unit of a vehicle, a wireless message from a wireless network. The wireless message includes sensor data describing one or more current physiological signals of a driver of the vehicle that are recorded by a portable medical device worn by the driver. The method may include analyzing the one or more current physiological signals of the driver to identify a medical emergency for the driver. The method may include overriding, by a personalized medical emergency autopilot system, one or more vehicle control inputs provided by the driver subsequent to identifying the medical emergency so that the driver cannot control the operation of the vehicle during the medical emergency.

Abstract: A synchronous rectifier applied to a power converter includes a gate coupling effect suppressing unit. The gate coupling effect suppressing unit is used for suppressing an induced voltage coupled to a gate of a metal-oxide-semiconductor transistor coupled to a secondary side of the power converter to ensure that the metal-oxide-semiconductor transistor is turned off when the power converter operates in a start-up condition and a power switch of the power converter is turned on. When the power converter operates in the start-up condition, a driving voltage of the secondary side of the power converter for driving the synchronous rectifier is not enough to drive the synchronous rectifier yet.

Abstract: The disclosure includes implementations for providing a personalized medical emergency autopilot system based on data from a portable medical device. A method may include receiving, by a communication unit of a vehicle, a wireless message from a wireless network. The wireless message includes sensor data describing one or more current physiological signals of a driver of the vehicle that are recorded by a portable medical device worn by the driver. The method may include analyzing the one or more current physiological signals of the driver to identify a medical emergency for the driver. The method may include overriding, by a personalized medical emergency autopilot system, one or more vehicle control inputs provided by the driver subsequent to identifying the medical emergency so that the driver cannot control the operation of the vehicle during the medical emergency.

Abstract: A semiconductor device is provided. The semiconductor device includes a first fin partially surrounded by a first isolation structure and a second fin partially surrounded by a second isolation structure. The second isolation structure has a dopant concentration higher than that of the first isolation structure, and a height difference is between a top surface of the first isolation structure and a top surface of the second isolation structure.

Abstract: The disclosure includes implementations for executing one or more computations for a vehicle. Some implementations of a method for a vehicle may include identifying one or more computations as being un-executable by any processor-based computing device of the vehicle. The method may include generating a query including query data describing the one or more computations to be executed for the vehicle. The method may include providing the query to a network. The method may include receiving a response from the network. The response may include solution data describing a result of executing the one or more computations. The response may be provided to the network by a processor-based computing device included in a hierarchy of processor-based computing devices that have greater computational ability than any processor-based computing devices of the vehicle.

Abstract: A semiconductor device structure is provided. The semiconductor device structure includes a substrate. The semiconductor device structure includes a first fin structure and a second fin structure over the substrate. There is a gap between the first fin structure and the second fin structure. The semiconductor device structure includes an isolation structure having a thin portion and a thick portion. A first upper portion of the first fin structure and a second upper portion of the second fin structure protrude from the thin portion. The thick portion is partially between the first upper portion and the second upper portion. The semiconductor device structure includes a dummy gate electrode over the thick portion, the first upper portion, and the second upper portion. The semiconductor device structure includes a gate electrode over the first fin structure and the thin portion.

Abstract: The disclosure includes implementations for a connected vehicle receiving cached electronic control unit (“ECU” if singular or “ECUs” if plural) mapping solutions via a network. Some implementations of a method for a vehicle may include identifying a presence of one or more functions associated with a vehicle control system. The method may include generating a query including a mapping problem describing one or more questions about which of one or more ECUs should execute the one or more functions. The method may include providing the query to a network. The method may include receiving a response from the network. The response may include a mapping solution that describes which of the one or more ECUs should execute the one or more functions. The method may include mapping the one or more functions to the one or more ECUs as described by the mapping solution.

Abstract: An automatic control method suitable for a bicycle system is provided. The bicycle system has a gear ratio and a toque ratio formed by an auxiliary torque and a pedaling torque. The automatic control method includes following steps: sensing a pedaling cadence and the pedaling torque of the bicycle system in a riding state; setting a first cadence threshold and a second cadence threshold according to a preset pedaling cadence while the first cadence threshold is greater than the second cadence threshold; and determining whether the pedaling cadence is greater than the first cadence threshold or less than the second cadence threshold so as to set to increase or decrease the gear ratio. In addition, a bicycle system suitable for the automatic control method is also provided.

Abstract: The disclosure includes implementations for supervising a data load for a vehicle. Some implementations of a method may include receiving report data from a communicative coupling shared with a supervised component that includes a report module that transmits a message including the report data. The report data may describe a data load for the supervised component. The method may include retrieving specification data for the supervised component that describes a threshold for the data load. The method may include performing an analysis of the data load to determine whether the data load exceeds the threshold. The method may include providing graphical data to an electronic display panel to cause the electronic display panel to display a message responsive to the analysis indicating that the data load exceeds the threshold. The method may include providing an accommodation to the supervised component so that the data load does not exceed the threshold.

Abstract: The disclosure includes implementations for modifying an operation of an Advanced Driver Assistance System (“ADAS system”) of a vehicle based on one or more preferences of a user for the operation of the ADAS system. Some implementations of a method may include receiving a wireless message from a wireless network. The wireless message may include optimization settings data describing how to modify an operation of the ADAS system of the vehicle based on one or more preferences of a user for the operation of the ADAS system. The user may include a human who has reserved the vehicle for their use. The method may include modifying one or more control parameters of the ADAS system based on the optimization settings data so that the operation of the ADAS system conforms with the one or more preferences of the user for the operation of the ADAS system.

Abstract: A method for controlling a dead time of a secondary side of a power converter includes giving a previous first turning-on time and a current first turning-on time corresponding to a primary side of the power converter, generating a first voltage and a second voltage according to the previous first turning-on time and the current first turning-on time, respectively, generating a current first target voltage according to the first voltage, the second voltage, and an ideal voltage corresponding to a previous ideal second turning-on time of the secondary side, and determining a current second turning-on time of the secondary side according to the current first target voltage and a first ramp voltage corresponding to a current ideal second turning-on time of the secondary side. A difference between the current second turning-on time and the current ideal second turning-on time is a current dead time.

Abstract: A management system, a smart meter, a server, an operation method and a management method are provided. The management system includes a remote server and at least one smart meter. The smart meter is coupled to the remote server via a communication network. The smart meter measures electrical energy of at least one power line to obtain at least one batch of electricity data. The smart meter detects whether the loading event occurs. If the loading event occurs, the smart meter performs data compression on the electricity data obtained during an event period corresponding to the loading event to obtain compressed data, and uploads the compressed data to the remote server. The remote server performs data decompression on the compressed data to obtain decompressed data. The remote server performs load identification according to the decompressed data.

Abstract: The disclosure includes a system and method for removing an incompatibility between an adaptive sensor system and an adaptive engine control unit system. The method may include detecting an update to one or more of an adaptive sensor system and an adaptive engine control unit system. The method may include identifying an incompatibility between the adaptive sensor system and the adaptive engine control unit system created by the update. The method may include determining one or more modifications for one or more of the first compatibility module and the second compatibility module. The modifications may be configured to remove the incompatibility.

Abstract: A synchronous rectifier applied to a power converter includes a power supply module, a control module, and a gate driving unit. The power supply module is used for generating a supply current according to an induced voltage generated from a secondary side of the power converter, wherein the supply current is used for establishing a supply voltage, and the induced voltage corresponds to a control signal of a power switch of a primary side of the power converter. The control module is coupled to the power supply module for turning on or turning off the power supply module according to the supply voltage. The gate driving unit is coupled to the power supply module for generating a gate control signal controlling turning-on and turning-off of a synchronous switch of the secondary side of the power converter, wherein the supply voltage is used for driving the gate driving unit.

Abstract: An automatic control shock absorber system for a bicycle is provided. The system includes one or more sensors. A controller outputs a control signal to a damping adjuster according to the one or more sensors, such that the damping adjuster controls level of damping force based on the sensors.